Travelin' Soldier

Photo taken by a volunteer at Ft. Jackson

6 weeks down, 4 to go!

We've gotten more letters from Carey. Surprisingly he has been a good pen pal. He reports that he has been freezing his tail off and misses my cooking and Sawyer's smiles. I try to help with the smile bit by sending lots of photos but can't help with the cooking. I found two facebook pages with information on his until and found this photo in Delta Co's album. Apparently they are on a no pictures hold so this is from early-mid March, but there's our soldier!

He is disappointed in the vigor of the Army PT. Apparently it used to be much more intense and has been scaled back. His crossfit training has set him up well but he reports that others in his unit have been struggling.

They are almost through the white phase of training. The first was red and was mostly classroom with some physical team building. The white phase has been a lot of shooting (which he loves) and some first aid.

There is another website: www.basictrainingphotos.com that gives other photos but they are copyrighted and I couldn't bring them to the blog. If you're interested, his company is D113 and I've found 3 pictures of him there.

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